Straight talk about literacy and reading. Literacy empowers and liberates all people, this is a fundamental human right everyone needs to protect and advance. Teachers need to model, inspire and espouse the best of Humanity. Students need to experience, honor and embody the best of Humanity. Standardized Reading and Math tests measure a student's exposure to curriculum, not their curiosity, empathy, creativity or humanity. Sean Taylor

Use the Online STAR Test Questions 5th Grade Below to help Students Prepare for reading test!

Reading and Vocabulary Games

Vocabulary Games

Alien Vocabulary Game (Tier 3 Testing Words) (or Chutes and Ladders) Use this free tier 3 academic vocabulary game to build test readiness. The game is designed to be a fun way to build academic vocabulary using a game students already know. A number of "CAMO Aliens" (ladders) and "Blues Aliens" (or "chutes") are pictured on the board, each connecting two specific board squares. The object of the game is to navigate one's game piece from the start (bottom square) to the finish (top square), helped or hindered by CAMO Aliens and Blues Aliens, respectively. Any time you land on an alien you have to draw a new card! If you land on the CAMO Aliens and answer the vocabulary question correctly you beam to the next highest CAMO Alien plus the move allowance on the card. If you land on the Blue Alien and get the question wrong you beam down to the next lowest Blues Alien. If you are on a Blue Alien and answer correctly you stay put until your next turn.

The game is a simple race to the top using the RBC Vocabulary Flash Cards, and is popular with children.

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The Dyslexic Reading Teacher Sean Taylor

Literacy for me was almost an unrealized unattainable dream! As a dyslexic learner I was unable to read, write, or decode words as a child, p,d,b and q were all the same letter. The written word was a collection of cuneiform squiggles that swam around on the page. I was identified dyslexic at age 9 and later dysgraphic. I spent the next 6 years in special education programs (limbō) trying to learn to read and write. The special education programs never acknowledged my creative capabilities, coping skills and shame and humiliation of being illiterate, they focused on "curing" my learning disabilities with under-trained teachers! Many classroom teachers assumed I would never read or write due to the severity of my dyslexia and this made me feel worthless. I eventually learned to read all words by sight the same method as learning Chinese. I am a dyslexic reading teacher that has built a reputation for finding innovative ways to teach reading and critical thinking to all students! ALL children are gifted and can learn to read! Sean Taylor M.Ed.

The Gift of ART and Dyslexia?

Charcoal Portrait's by Sean Taylor. My Portraits and Pen and Ink Artwork helped pay for college! Art and Dyslexia was a gift that let me travel to 29 countries. Click on picture for more information.

Prepare Your Students for Tougher ELA Reading Exams!

How can a Dyslexic Reading Teacher HELP 95% of all at-risk students pass the EOG Reading Test? 10 Consecutive Years!

"The Legendary Lands" STEAMPUNK Reading Comprehension Game!

FREE Teacher Made Reading Comprehension and CCSS Vocabulary GAMES! Help your students succeed and have fun!

May God bless and keep you always, may your wishes and dreams all come true this year. Sean

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Stop The Insanity

Billions Spent on TESTING?

Privileging the RICH corporations over the Many in Education is the real tragedy of school reform and public policy. Stopping the political and media led Austerity Education Movement should be our top priority! Stop wasting Billions on accountability TESTING8, that is just common sense! The school reform Merry Go Round is fleecing billions yearly from real needs and is benefiting politicians and corporations not our children. It's time for millions of students and parents to get active and say NO MORE!

95% Passing on EOG/EOC Reading Test in 20 Days!

The instructional models and teaching philosophy is designed to inspire students to read, reason, question, cooperate and discover their love of learning in 20 days. At-Risk Students, in the highest poverty Title I schools are scoring in the 95 percentile on Standardized EOG/EOC Reading test in 20 days!